God vs. Judith: The Emotive Problem of Evil
Pastor Robert Houghton got a look at "Judith" by A Perfect Circle three weeks ago, and his reaction-video has gone somewhat viral -- amassing 283,000 views, 5,900 likes, and over 6,000 comments…
The Pot: An Analysis
The time has come to go over perhaps my favorite lyrical masterpiece: The Pot by Tool. An almost Shakespearean mixture of vulgarity and high vocabulary, peppered with double-entendres and all wrapped…
Are you “Spiritual?”
I think the fastest-growing religion in America today is probably "spiritual but not religious." The continual rise in witchcraft seems to match this trend: with a few unique exceptions, the…
Render Unto Caesar
Ezra Pound and Propertarianism have gotten me thinking a lot about debt recently (even to the point of poetry). The Christian personal-finance guru Dave Ramsey calls debt "slavery," and he…
MCS1: Against Antisemitism
On what will hopefully be the first of many Saturday morning caffeine streams, I spoke with Kyle Broussard about circumcision, antisemitism, and Eric Clopper's presentation on the subject of male…
Identity and the Problem with Christianity
Originally published on Counter-Currents: Whenever we accept certain axioms as true, we bar ourselves from accepting certain conclusions which contradict the axioms. For example, if we accept the axioms that…
The Slave Morality: An Alternative Hypothesis
The Slave Morality was a famous theory of the origins of "good and evil" proposed by Friederich Nietzsche, which argued that based on the etymological origins of the words "good" and…
Religious Practicalities
Anyone who has been following the Alt Right internal politics will no doubt be getting a little peeved by the infighting and edge-lording that is coming dangerously close to defining…
Philosophy v. Theology
I was attending a New Year's dinner with some old friends a few years ago, when the subject of philosophy came up. My friend had a master's degree in computer…
Why Christianity?
Today's right wing is rehashing an age-old debate, and one that I myself have grappled with for nearly a decade in some form or another: what faith should the West…